Peter C. O’Brien, Performance Government: Activating and regulating the self-governing capacities of teachers and school leaders, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online: 04 Jul 2014 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.930682 Abstract This article analyses ‘performance government’ as an emergent form of rule in advanced liberal democracies. It discloses how teachers and school leaders in Australia are being governed …
Silcock, M., Hocking, C., Payne, D. Childhood constructions of contemporary technology: Using discourse analysis to understand the creation of occupational possibilities (2014) Journal of Occupational Science, 21 (3), pp. 357-370. Abstract Ten children aged 10-12 years were audio recorded discussing and demonstrating the types of technology they regularly used at home. A critical discourse analysis …
Steve Matthewman, Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory,Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 2013, Pages 274-292 DOI: 10.5840/techne201317210 Pre-publication copy Author’s blog Abstract While Michel Foucault’s significance as a social theorist is undisputed, his importance as a technological theorist is frequently overlooked. This article considers the richness and the range …
Robin James, Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool, Culture, Theory, and Critique 52 (2):138-158 (2014) Further info Abstract Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali’s theory of “composition” and the biopolitics of “uncool.” Reading Jacques Attali’s …
Annmaria Shimabuku, Schmitt and Foucault on the Question of Sovereignty under Military Occupation, Política común, Volume 5, 2014 https://doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0005.007 Extract 1. A Violation or Production of Sovereignty? This essay examines the geopolitical underpinnings of Carl Schmitt’s well-known definition of the sovereign as “he who decides the exception” (Political Theology 5) mainly through The Nomos of …
Jacobs, F., Claringbould, I., Knoppers, A. Becoming a ‘good coach’ (2014) Sport, Education and Society, . Article in Press. Abstract The purpose of this paper was to gain insight into how coaches problematized their coaching practices and the process in which they engaged to become what they perceived to be better coaches using a course …
Chloë Taylor, Birth of the Suicidal Subject: Nelly Arcan, Michel Foucault, and Voluntary Death, Culture, Theory and Critique, Published online: 23 Jul 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2014.937820 Abstract Michel Foucault argues that it is not sex but death that is the true taboo in the modern, biopolitical era. The result is that regular death has been privatised and …
Courtney Szto & Sarah Gray Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter (2014) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, . Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2014.938245 Abstract The Biggest Loser (TBL) is a reality weight-loss television show that aims to address the notion of an ‘obesity epidemic’ by instructing viewers about …
Thomas Bolmain, Ni Foucault ni Lacan. De la Loi, entre éthique et finitude Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. VI, no. 1, June 2014:198-240 Full PDF (in French) Abstract After highlighting Foucault’s ambivalent position with regards to psychoanalysis, this paper first shows that Foucault’s critical thought, insofar as it finds its condition …
Oleg Bernaz, Usages de Foucault entre la psychanalyse et le marxisme. Discours de la résistance et pratiques de l’intervention intellectuelle en société, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. VI, no. 1, June 2014: 241-265. Full PDF (in French) Abstract In this paper I analyze two distinct contemporary perspectives on the Foucauldian concept …
